Helen How
Registered Osteopath Edinburgh 0131 551 1044
Chronic painful tendons and ligaments are miles more difficult for any practitioners would dare to admit. They frustrating refuse to heal and require immense hours of committed , dedicated , cherishing , care and comforting!
Professor Hakan Alfredson has been lecturing throughout the world, with endless research so I am off to Arsenal to find out what new treatment methods have been considered for chronic painful achilles tendons. The last time I listened to Professor Alfredson over 10 years ago. The problem is tendons need rest to recover but who can rest a tendon because all the other muscles waste and atrophy as we all get very frustrated and bored waiting for the tendon to heal
You can spend hours searching the internet, visiting all us different therapists, receiving various advice some which aggravates, more then likely hours and hours of boring exercises and then sometimes after all that effort you still have some chronic muscle wastage and pain.
One of the many reasons for being notoriously difficult to treat is that tendons and ligaments are make of a dense collagen fibres and to get the necessary nutrients, stimulation of oxygen and importantly the NECESSARY REST for healing and recovering is very time consuming and makes both the practitioner and therapist frustrated as here one has to be very patient and give out very gentle mild stabilizing exercises to recruit and maintain and prevent muscle atrophy, weakness and chronic wastage. The nearby pain of tendons and ligaments switch off the muscles strength immediately and fast atrophy and wasting creeps in. Here is one of the most well researched well used websites for such products – Here is the sports Neurotrac and their website which has videos, protocols and programmes – I definitely highly recommend you to read
Tendons and ligaments are very delicate when injuried and loathe being used or exercises but your muscles will waste and atrophy and once some of the slow twitch muscles such as the rotator cuff of the shoulder or the thighs muscles wasted - it is almost impossible to recover the muscular bulk, tone and strength again. Here I speak from clinic experience and so I delighted that the Neurotrac , Slendertone and other products has advanced so much over the last 10 years.
One of my clients now over 65 years old has given permission to report back to me that he is delighted with the neurotrac as he has severe weakness of his lower limbs from some old sports injuries with severe atrophy of his thigh muscle. The neurtrac combined with simple exercises which I give out is bringing back his strength in his legs to climb up stairs again. It is a long reason why the muscles have to be stimulated artificially by the Neurotrac Sports
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Helen How
Registered Osteopath
14 Craighall Gardens
Edinburgh EH6 4RJ
0131 551 1044
£35 for one hour consultation and treatment
£20 for simple follow up